The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
1.-Title
(1)This Act is the Copyright Amendment Act 2005.
(2)In this Act, the Copyright Act 1994 is called «the principal Act».
2.-Commencement
This Act comes into force on the day on which it receives the Royal assent.
3.-No copyright in certain works
Section 27 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsections:
«(1A) No Crown copyright exists in any work, whenever that work was made,:
«(a)in which the Crown copyright has not been assigned to another person; and
«(b)that is incorporated by reference in a work referred to in subsection (1).
«(1B)Except as specified in subsection (1A), nothing in subsection (1) affects copyright in any work that is incorporated by reference in a work referred to in subsection (1).»